January 2010 ~ hindi movies

Sunday, 31 January 2010

Defamation (2009)

Posted on 12:27 by khali

RecommendedIsrael/Austria/Denmark/Norway/USAFeature DocumentaryOriginal Title: השמצהDirector: Yoav ShamirCinematographers: Yoav Shamir, Yehonatan OfekFeaturing: Abe Foxman, Norman Finkelstein, John Mearsheimer, Stephen WaltFilm-maker Shamir, a Jewish Israeli who, quite understandably, has never experienced anti-Semitism, though his country’s media is so often filled with mentions of it, sets off for New York and Auschwitz in order to find out what...

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Jump Tomorrow (2001)

Posted on 06:35 by khali

RecommendedUK/USAFeature FilmDirector: Joel HopkinsWriters: Joel Hopkins, Iain Tibbles, Nicola UsborneCinematographer: Patrick CadyComposer: John KimbroughCast: Tunde Adebimpe, Hippolyte Girardot, Natalia Verbeke, James Wilby, Patricia Mauceri, Gene RuffiniA confused, good-hearted man of Nigerian descent, who in a couple of days time is due to marry a family friend in a (sort of) arranged marriage, fortuitously or perhaps unfortuitously makes the...

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Saturday, 30 January 2010

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

Posted on 13:12 by khali

Cautiously RecommendedUSATelevision FilmDirector: Yves SimoneauWriters: Daniel Giat, Dee Alexander BrownCinematographer: David FrancoComposer: George S. ClintonCast: Adam Beach, Aidan Quinn, August Schellenberg, Gordon Tootoosis, Anna Paquin, Eric Schweig, Wes Studi, J.K. Simmons, Colm Feore, Fred Thompson, Nathan Chasing His Horse, Chevez EzanehSpanning the period from The Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890,...

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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

Posted on 07:31 by khali

Essential ViewingTaiwanFeature FilmOriginal Title: 不散Director: Tsai Ming-liangWriter: Tsai Ming-liangCinematographer: Liao Ben-BongCast: Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura Kiyonobu, Miao Tien, Shih Chun, Chen Chao-jung, Yang Kuei-Mei, Lee Yi-ChengOn what could well be its final night, a woman with a clubfoot keeps an eye on a grand old but decidedly dilapidated cinema and its patrons, most of whom are there merely to cottage rather than to...

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Braindead (1992)

Posted on 07:12 by khali

RecommendedNew ZealandFeature FilmDirector: Peter JacksonWriters: Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair, Frances WalshCinematographer: Murray MilneComposer: Peter DasentCast: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall, Stuart Devenie, Jed BrophyWhen his domineering mother is bitten by a rat monkey, which turns her into a flesh eating zombie, a shy, put-upon young man does his best to keep her and her ever increasing number...

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Elephant (2003)

Posted on 06:52 by khali

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Gus Van SantCinematographer: Harris SavidesCast: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor, Carrie Finklea, Nicole George, Brittany Mountain, Alicia Miles, Kristen Hicks, Bennie Dixon, Nathan TysonVan Sant’s mesmerising if slightly disappointing take on the Columbine shootings borrows much of its formal elements from the far superior Sátántangó (1994) and Elephant (1989); so...

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Friday, 29 January 2010

25th Hour (2002)

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RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Spike LeeWriters: David BenioffCinematographer: Rodrigo PrietoComposer: Terence BlanchardCast: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Tony Siragusa, Levan Uchaneishvili, Isiah Whitlock Jr.A convicted drug dealer, about to start a seven year sentence at a tough prison, spends his final 24 hours of freedom with family and friends, doing his best not to think about...

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Notre Musique (2004)

Posted on 05:13 by khali

RecommendedFrance/SwitzerlandFeature FilmOriginal Title: Notre musiqueWriter/Director: Jean-Luc GodardCinematographer: Julien HirschCast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, George Aguilar, Ferlyn Brass, Leticia Gutiérrez, Aline Schulmann, Jean-Luc GodardGodard’s (thankfully) more sombre and reverent than usual film presents, in three parts, a provocative and surprisingly moving portrait of man’s inhumanity to...

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Summer (2008)

Posted on 04:33 by khali

Highly RecommendedUK/GermanyFeature FilmDirector: Kenneth GlenaanWriter: Hugh EllisCinematographer: Tony Slater-LingComposer: Stephen McKeonCast: Robert Carlyle, Steve Evets, Rachael Blake, Michael Socha, Sean Kelly, Joe Doherty, Joanna Tulej, Matthew Workman, Christopher Russell, Bethan DaviesA weather-beaten bloke in a small Derbyshire town, who acts as carer for his wheelchair bound friend who is dying of cirrhosis of the liver, experiences strong...

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Thursday, 28 January 2010

Adam & Paul (2004)

Posted on 12:17 by khali

Highly RecommendedIrelandFeature FilmDirector: Leonard AbrahamsonWriter: Mark O'HalloranCinematographer: James MatherComposer: Hugh Drumm, Stephen RennicksCast: Mark O'Halloran, Tom Murphy, Louise Lewis, Gary Egan, Deirdre Molloy, Mary Murray, Paul Roe, Anita ReevesTwo down-on-their-luck heroin addicts – homeless, friendless, drugless, and penniless – trawl the streets of Dublin, on the day of their friend’s funeral, in search of drugs, money, or...

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Unrelated (2007)

Posted on 09:38 by khali

RecommendedUKFeature FilmWriter/Director: Joanna HoggCinematographer: Oliver CurtisCast: Kathryn Worth, Tom Hiddleston, Mary Roscoe, David Rintoul, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Harry Kershaw, Michael Hadley, Emma HiddlestonA middle-aged woman joins an old school friend and her large family on a boozy holiday to an idyllic Tuscany country retreat, but instead of spending time with her old friend and the rest of the adults, as would be expected, she gravitates...

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The River (1997)

Posted on 06:10 by khali

RecommendedTaiwanFeature FilmOriginal Title: 河流Director: Tsai Ming-liangWriters: Tsai Ming-liang, Tsai Yi-chun, Yang Pi-yingCinematographer: Liao Pen-jungCast: Lee Kang-sheng, Miao Tien, Lu Hsiao-Ling, Ann Hui, Chen Shiang-chyiAn unhappy Taipei family strive to alleviate their problems; the father, who frequents gay bathhouses, struggles manfully to manage a gushing leak from his bedroom ceiling; the mother struggles to find an appropriate outlet...

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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Posted on 05:50 by khali

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden SchlossbergWriters: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden SchlossbergCinematographer: Daryn OkadaComposer: George S. ClintonCast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Danneel Harris, Rob Corddry, Paula Garcés, Eric Winter, Neil Patrick HarrisTwo Asian American stoners get mistaken for terrorists and sent to Guantanamo Bay, when the smokeless bong that one of them is carrying on a flight to Amsterdam is mistaken for a bomb; fortuitously,...

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Gerry (2002)

Posted on 05:07 by khali

Highly RecommendedUSA/SwitzerlandFeature FilmDirector: Gus Van SantWriters: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon, Gus Van SantCinematographer: Harris SavidesComposer: Arvo PärtCast: Casey Affleck, Matt DamonTwo young men named Gerry set out on a desert hike, but when they stray from the path they soon realise that they are lost; and without food or water they begin to search for a way out, in Van Sant’s gently droll and beautifully shot minimalist drama – an...

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Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Posted on 11:35 by khali

RecommendedSpain/Mexico/USAFeature FilmOriginal Title: El laberinto del faunoWriter/Director: Guillermo del ToroCinematographer: Guillermo NavarroComposer: Javier NavarreteCast: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo, Manolo Solo, César Vea, Roger Casamajor, Pablo AdánDuring the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, as Franco’s soldiers roam the hills looking for any remaining pockets of resistance, Ofelia,...

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Ten (2002)

Posted on 05:06 by khali

Highly RecommendedIran/FranceFeature FilmOriginal Title: 10Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Abbas KiarostamiCast: Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Kamran Adl, Roya Arabshahi, Amene Moradi, Mandana Sharbaf, Katayoun TaleizadehKiarostami’s beautifully simple yet never simplistic film follows a wealthy, attractive, and amiable but put-upon Tehranian artist as she gives ten rides to family, friends, and strangers (including her bratty, misogynistic son and...

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Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Posted on 03:57 by khali

Essential ViewingUSAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Paul Thomas AndersonCinematographer: Robert ElswitComposer: Jon BrionCast: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Luis Guzmán, Karen Kilgariff, Mary Lynn RajskubBarry Egan – the only brother amongst eight siblings, who suffers from one or more anxiety disorders and runs a trading business of some sort – finds his life drastically altered, for better and worse, when he meets a sweet English girl, gets into trouble...

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Tuesday, 26 January 2010

The Guardian's Top 50 Television Dramas of All Time (2010)

Posted on 06:08 by khali

The Sopranos (1999-2007) Brideshead Revisited (1981) Our Friends in the North (1996) Mad Men (2007-) A Very Peculiar Practice (1986-1988) Talking Heads (1987) The Singing Detective (1986) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989) State of Play (2003) Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) The West Wing (1999-2006) Twin Peaks (1990-1991) Queer as Folk (1999-2000) The Wire (2002-2008) Six Feet Under (2001-2005) How Do You Want Me? (1998-1999)...

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Cahiers du Cinéma's Films of the Decade (2000s)

Posted on 05:51 by khali

Mulholland Dr. (2001) Elephant (2003) Tropical Malady (2004) The Host (2006) A History of Violence (2005) Couscous (2007) Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks (2003) War of the Worlds (2005) The New World (2005) Ten (20...